Governess Eleanor Morgan flees to America, but the family she’s to serve never arrives to collect her. She must settle for what’s left—an offer of marriage. Backwoodsman Samuel Heath is a survivor. He will find a mother for his young daughter. The trouble is who would marry a murderer?
No one trades freedom for slavery—unless her life depends upon it.
On the run from a cruel employer, English governess Eleanor Morgan escapes to America, the land of the free, for the opportunity to serve an upstanding Charles Town family. But liberty is hard to come by as an indentured servant, and downright impossible when she’s forced to agree to an even harsher contract—marriage to a man she’s never met.
Backwoodsman Samuel Heath doesn’t care what others think of him—but his young daughter’s reputation matters very much. The lifestyle of a trapper in the Carolina backcountry is no life for a small girl, but neither is abandoning his child to another family. He decides it’s time to marry again, but that proves to be an impossible task. Who wants to wed a murderer?
Both Eleanor and Samuel are survivors, accustomed to overcoming trials and hardships, but this time they must face their biggest challenge ever . . .
Love.
